Home Made Remote-Controlled Camera Captures Animals Close Up

TANZANIA, AFRICA: Meet BeetleCam - the amazing homemade gadget that allowed two British brothers to venture into a real lions' den and bring you these stunning images of Africa's most dangerous wildlife. The spectacular closeups of lion prides, elephant herds and huge cape buffalo's were all made possible by the cute remote-controlled gizmo who trundled around the roughly-terrained bush on oversized rubber wheels. Brothers Matthew Burrard-Lucas, 20, a student, and William, 26, a wildlife photographer, both from London, constructed BeetleCam last year in their garage and fitted the groundbreaking contraption with a camera. For two weeks in August they let their electronic camouflaged companion loose in the wilds of remote Katavi National Park, South-West Tanzania, and got incredible results. During their excursion tough BeetleCam was almost completely destroyed by a lion but was repaired by the brothers using some bush DIY.

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[Jakelol1980]

I cant hear shit of what your saying with that music.

[gkoriski]

The project idea is nice but this music is really very bad, sounds like a broken cheep sequencer, do yourself a favor, take it off. i couldn't finish watching the video because of it.

[cdoggiefizzle]

I can't hear, what's the website where we can see the pictures?

[yurianne07]

kay now take it to a beach with many grrls.... ;)

[alexicon89]

Us geeks are slowly entering the world and are taking over!

Fear the revenge of the geeks!

This is our time!!

[MandiS1965]

Please remove or lower the sound of that "music", it totally ruins your video. It makes it very hard to understand anything you say. That being said, what is the name of the site you mentioned? Please post. Would be interesting to see them!

[ArturoDabdoub]

@wingbatwu better than "byebye dear life"

[DarrylGittins]

Great work! Ignore the rude comments from the armchair critics. I didn't catch where the pictures were posted. Can you please provide a link? Thanks!

[lukin5]

@Etnier Burnt up

[wingbatwu]

Looks like some of the animals are about to attack your RC car... one elephant stomp, and byebye expensive gear.

[lychicambess]

Blah. The flash IS terrible I agree

[Etnier]

Too bad they're married to those flash units. Doesn't help the pictures AT ALL, unless you're going throug all that to photograph nature as an edgy high-fashion ego trip.